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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1972
Page
3
IN HIS Steps film based on the novel by Topeka clergyman Charles M. Sheldon will be shown at 8 p.m. Sunday at Wesleyan Church 923 N Cherry. Public invited. Sponsored by Wesleyan youth.
The Daily Report records include fines for Larry D. Bailey and Donald L. Lamb, civil suit Hicks Electric vs Albert Cox for $563.01, multiple traffic and accident details in Ottawa area, admissions and dismissals lists, emergency reports, obituaries notices for Stella Sweetwood Blair and Mildred E. Aubry, and Kansas City cattle market figures.
Dr. W. Walter Menninger, clinical director of Topeka State Hospital, will lecture on mental health at 8 p.m. Monday in Ottawa University’s administration building auditorium. He is a founding editor of The Psychiatry Digest and has served as an editorial consultant for Mental Health magazines. As a member of the Eisenhower Commission, he was the first psychiatrist named to a national investigatory panel after Senator Kennedy's assassination. He has also consulted for the Peace Corps and VISTA and is known for writings on law enforcement and corrections.
The second annual Lord's Acre Sale at Trinity United Methodist Church 630 N Cedar runs Saturday from 11 a.m. with a rummage sale starting 8 a.m. in the rear church yard. Food will be served and 50 percent of proceeds benefit Franklin County Rehabilitation Facility. Last year funds sponsored Mike Genthe an I C Y E student from Berlin. Call 242-1428 for more information or donation pickup.
Franklin County Commission toured the 17th Street paving project a joint effort with the city of Ottawa. They said the paving looked good and should wrap up next week linking Main Street to Eisenhower Road. At the Health Department, officials discussed expectant parents classes home nursing and a school screening program with hearing and vision tests. The commissioners planned a meeting of Eastern Kansas elected county officials in Independence.
The body of Joseph A. Sassaman Jr. 46, of Ottawa RFD 4, was found Wednesday in a car north of Ottawa. He apparently died from carbon monoxide gas from a hose connected to the exhaust. Born March 1 1926 in Centropolis, he lived in Franklin County all his life as a farmer and dairyman. He was a World War II veteran and member of the Baptist Church. Survived by widow Irma M. Bachelor, four daughters, a son serving in the Navy, three sisters, mother, and two grandchildren. Services Friday at Dengel & Son Mortuary with burial at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Electrical crews cutting trees on the east lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse to install a primary service for the new county jail. Utilities director Russell Baker said wires would have passed through the bushy trees, risking service problems.
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